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“The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.”

“What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.”

Ifs Soul Matter Would Be Cry Source Senses This Life Sensations Resurrection

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.”

Source: Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World

“There is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting them back to earth and using them in a cost efficient manner.”

Needs Problem Would Be Earth Energy Source Cost Efficient Locked Solar System Locked Up

Author:Wilson Greatbatch

“There is not in sight any source of energy that would be a fair start toward that which would be necessary to get us beyond the gravitative control of the earth.”

Would Be Earth Energy Source Fairs Sight

Book:Consider the Heavens

Source: Consider the Heavens

“The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.”

Ifs Way Trying Littles Ideas Ends Would Be Fall Process Cases Source Keys Balance Code Pens Artificial Intelligence Artificial Explosions Accelerate Rewriting Tipping Tilt Tipping Point

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.”

Ifs Might Would Be Law Universe Causes Known Effects Ignorance Source Consequence Standing Miracle Defined Laws Of Nature

Author:Charles Babbage

“How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.”

Ifs Firsts Persons Would Be Names Impossible Source Rivers Following First Person

Book:Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

Source: Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

“The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.”

Ideas Would Be Political Politics Accepting Source Industry Argument Socialist Congressman Tainted

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.”

Believe Real Would Be Guy Fantasy Streets Military Source Lows Areas Fruit Suits Articles Charlatans Military Experience

Author:Scott Ritter

“I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.”

Source: How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

“To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.”

Should Writing Book War Would Be Individual Destiny Plans Crime Information Source Available All Time Monument Bankruptcy Coffins War Crimes

Author:Manly Hall

“The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!”

Ifs Humans Would Be Beautiful Death Growth Source Creatures Mercy Charity Affection Deeds Graves

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.”

Ifs Enough Would Be Values Fighting Company Support Products Source Add Great Things Insane Good Enough Competing Exploits Disruptive Oracles Open Source

Author:Larry Ellison

“We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.”

People Way Feels Should Would Be Acting Situation Source Missions Screws Compelled Tricky Dissidents

Author:Julian Assange

“... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and those who believe that nature is still and always will be one of the main (if not the main) sources of mathematical inspiration. The first group is identified as "pure mathematicians" (though "purist" would be more adequate) while the second is, with equal inadequacy, referred to as "applied".”

Ifs Firsts Believe Stills Inspiration Would Be Grows Groups Source Pure Equal Mathematics Contact Mathematical Mathematician Adequate Inadequacy

Author:Mark Kac

“Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.”

Enough Would Be Source Insane Good Enough Competing Open Source

Author:Larry Ellison

“To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.”

Ifs Men World Heart Would Be Voice Moral Teach Source Genius Originals Sincerity Wiser Clamor

Author:Ludwig Borne

“It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.”

World Said Would Be Three Evil Source Devil Flesh Innocent

Book:Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion

Source: Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion

“The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.”

World Ends Reason Happens Would Be Age Moving Energy Mistake Economic Century Source Oil Expensive Proven 21st Century Energy Sources Petroleum

Author:David Deming

“I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic physics is there to support this view. But where is the evidence that the putative change would be large or damaging?”

Humans Would Be Views Accepting Support Source Evidence Climate Physics Rising Global Warming Fossils Co2 Sceptic

Author:Chris de Freitas

“We come from an abundant, endlessly providing, always forthcoming, always giving source. If we would just stay like that, if we would be forthcoming and giving and sharing and allowing, excluding no one, then it wouldn't be possible to have wars in the Middle East, or poverty in Africa, or any of these kinds of things.”

Ifs Giving Kind War Would Be Poverty Middle Source East Allowing Middle East Providing Forthcoming

Author:Wayne Dyer

“My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy, and changing our agricultural practices to be less disruptive and polluting. I'm not talking about a policy here so much as changing the way our infrastructure works. That's why I'm so fascinated with changing the way we build cities, because they are the most developed forms of physical infrastructure for human habitation.”

Way Firsts Humans Mean Would Be Form Energy Goal Cities Talking Practice Policy Source Cycles Fascinated Carbon Infrastructure Not Talking Disruptive Carbon Cycle

Author:Annalee Newitz

“As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.”

Would Be Actors Break Effects Stage New York Source Reviews Break Up New York Times Make Or Break

Author:Kevin Bacon

“If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.”

Ifs Wells Would Be America Energy Term Animal Products Source Machines Function Indian What If Milk Cows Inferiors Jersey Cattle Dairy Swiss Manure Alps Dairy Cows

Author:Vandana Shiva

“The difficulty that WikiLeaks has, of course, is that we can't go around speculating on who our sources are. That would be irresponsible.”

Would Be Courses Source Difficulty Irresponsible Wikileaks

Author:Julian Assange

“If a single Russian source would come forward, he would be in hot water. And in the United States, what I did appearing at that [Vladimir] Putin press conference was not worth the price.”

Ifs States Would Be Water United United States Source Hot Presses Conferences Putin Appearing Press Conferences Hot Water

Author:Edward Snowden

“I can't think of a scenario under which [Vladimir Putin] would gradually resign from power. For him and those around him, power became a source of unlimited enrichment. A loss of power would be tantamount to an annihilation of the economic success that has been achieved so far.”

Thinking Has Beens I Can Would Be Loss Economic Source Unlimited Putin Scenarios Annihilation Enrichment Economic Success

Author:Garry Kasparov

“One of the things I noticed about the Trump supporters was a lot of projected fear. I can't tell you how many times a conversation went like this: "We've got to stop these immigrants, because it's terrible." I'd say, "Okay, what personally have you observed about this?" And there would be basically nothing in that box. And I'd say, "Where'd you get your information?" thinking they were going to say Fox. But they would always say, "Well, I get my information from all kinds of sources." Fox is kind of center-left to a lot of people now.”

People Thinking Wells Kind I Can Would Be Left Information Source Trump Terrible Conversation Okay Boxes All Kinds Immigrants Foxes Supporter

Author:George Saunders

“By accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in Shi'ite-dominated areas. Iran's oil is concentrated right near the gulf, which happens to be an Arab area, not Persian. Khuzestan is Arab, has been loyal to Iran, fought with Iran not Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. This is a potential source of dissension. I would be amazed if there isn't an attempt going on to stir up secessionist elements in Khuzestan.”

Ifs World Has Beens War Happens Would Be Source Elements Majors Resources Areas Iraq Oil Accidents Iran Loyal Amazed Geography Iraq War Persian Dissension

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.”

Ifs Would Be Running America Energy Share Source Fairs Idiot Fair Share

Author:Lewis Black

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